Looking for Java Moss and other quick growing easy plants ...free or trade

[brewmaster15]

Hello all you keepers with a green thumb. Now that its finally warming up ( hey it hit 50 F 2 days in a row !) I'm looking for plants for my dwarf cichlid tanks and a few other projects Does any one have any plants they can ship me.. I'll pay for the shipping and any heat pack costs if needed. I can also trade you some Freeze Dried Blackworms which I usually have in abundance instead of paying cash, which I usually have a lack of!

Pm with what you have and what you want for it.

Thanks,
al

[kris2341]

MIGHT be able to rip you a chunk of Java Moss from my hexagon tank and some amazon swords that I have no idea what variety they are...

Problem with my tank is that it has a ramshorn snail problem that is slowly being taken care of by assassin snails

[brewmaster15]

kris,
I dont mind the snail problem...I can deal with that easily.

Thanks!

[jmf3460]

al, does this mean crypts are out?? I have a huge pot of cryptocoryne pontederiifolia id be willing to trade for some fdbw, ofcourse id take it out of the pot for shipping reasons bc its in a 4" terra cotta pot and fills the whole thing up..

[brewmaster15]

Crypts would be Fine Jacklyn, I have alot of luck in the past with them.

al

[jmf3460]

al here are the pics of the crypt pot I have ill trade. im posting here because its easier to attach pics here than in a PM
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[brewmaster15]

Thank Jacklyn!
Plants arrived today and look to have traveled well. I just potted them up...water a tad cloudy now but wil clear ina bit. Very cool surprises!

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Al

[Larry Grenier]

Another easy low-light plant besides Crypts, Anubias, and Java Fern is dwarf Sagittaria. http://imgarcade.com/1/dwarf-sagittaria-carpet/
Give it high light and a fertile substrate and it goes nuts but give it low-light and inert substrate and it just grows slow but survives. Easy, cheap, and tough.

[brewmaster15]

Another easy low-light plant besides Crypts, Anubias, and Java Fern is dwarf Sagittaria. http://imgarcade.com/1/dwarf-sagittaria-carpet/
Give it high light and a fertile substrate and it goes nuts but give it low-light and inert substrate and it just grows slow but survives. Easy, cheap, and tough.

Thanks Larry!!

[jmf3460]

Thank Jacklyn!
Plants arrived today and look to have traveled well. I just potted them up...water a tad cloudy now but wil clear ina bit. Very cool surprises!
Al

wow you broke that crypt pondertifolia up quite a bit good deal I had no idea how much it really was. This is one of my favorite plants Al. I once thought I had pulled them all up and like 6 months later I had baby ones popping up everywhere in a tank that was virtually empty with just wetted substrate and ambient light. Under high lighting the veins are pink for their first days as a new leaf. Also the genus/species of the curly onion plant is Crinum Calamistratum, I have them everywhere now, they grow slow but beware a lot is going on under the substrate that you don't realize with these bad boys.

[brewmaster15]

wow you broke that crypt pondertifolia up quite a bit good deal I had no idea how much it really was. This is one of my favorite plants Al. I once thought I had pulled them all up and like 6 months later I had baby ones popping up everywhere in a tank that was virtually empty with just wetted substrate and ambient light. Under high lighting the veins are pink for their first days as a new leaf. Also the genus/species of the curly onion plant is Crinum Calamistratum, I have them everywhere now, they grow slow but beware a lot is going on under the substrate that you don't realize with these bad boys.

I wasn't sure on that species of crypts, if it handles being broken apart so I played it cautious.. split it in half, one pot got half intact , the other, I split it apart and planted it with some growing room.

al

[jmf3460]

I wasn't sure on that species of crypts, if it handles being broken apart so I played it cautious.. split it in half, one pot got half intact , the other, I split it apart and planted it with some growing room.

al

from my experience with c. ponderiifolia, you cannot harm it, I literally tried to get rid of all of it in a tank, and 6 months later it was popping up everywhere in an abandoned tank. it literally went dormant for 6 months while send shoots under the substrate to every corner of a 20gallon tank and then decided all of the shoots would send up leaves at the same time. it doesn't get too tall, about what you have is as tall as it gets. I now have it in every tank that has plants.

[brewmaster15]

from my experience with c. ponderiifolia, you cannot harm it, I literally tried to get rid of all of it in a tank, and 6 months later it was popping up everywhere in an abandoned tank. it literally went dormant for 6 months while send shoots under the substrate to every corner of a 20gallon tank and then decided all of the shoots would send up leaves at the same time. it doesn't get too tall, about what you have is as tall as it gets. I now have it in every tank that has plants.

great! Thanks ...sent you out some treats for your discus today

[brewmaster15]

MIGHT be able to rip you a chunk of Java Moss from my hexagon tank and some amazon swords that I have no idea what variety they are...

Problem with my tank is that it has a ramshorn snail problem that is slowly being taken care of by assassin snails

Kris,
Got your too today...thanks..looks like they made it too..right now they are soaking in an anti snail bath

[kris2341]

great! thanks for the update!

hope you enjoy watching them slowly overrun your tank!